Two hours ago, richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu wrote:
>
> > On Dec 1, 2010, at 1:20 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> >>
> >> This is because you didn't document it.
>
> Yes, right. This was perhaps not the best illustration. I don't
> think it would be terribly useful to read documentation (per se)
> about functions defined at the REPL. I meant to illustrate that
> calling help on a procedure object in Python gives you a certain
> amount of information (regardless of whether the author has
> documented it or not), including the module it is defined in
See the rest of my message -- the information about the module is
something that you can get in a number of ways, most notably in
DrRacket.
> and its required and optional arguments. Is there a way to get this
> kind of information in Racket at the REPL, regardless of whether or
> not the author has been scrupulous in documenting her work?
The arity information is available via `procedure-arity', but argument
names are not kept.
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((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay:
http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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